CelestinaBroadview Press, 25 באוק׳ 2004 - 603 עמודים Published here for the first time in a modern edition, Charlotte Smith’s third novel is both rivetingly plotted and unique for its time in its powerful depiction of a gifted Romantic woman poet. The novel’s heroine, Celestina, abandoned as a child in a French convent, becomes an independent, witty, and accomplished elegiac poet who, in a reversal of the usual pattern of the courtship novel, acts as a mentor to several men in her life. Written at the beginning of the French Revolution, Smith’s novel depicts characters challenging both corrupt authority and conventional morality, exemplifying her hope that English society was on the verge of a great change for the better. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and primary source material relating to the novel’s reception, its political contexts (writings by Reverend Richard Price, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Paine), and the author’s life. |
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... woman of quality. Celestina heard him at first with concern, from an idea that he had heard Lady Horatia misrepresented; but when, on his afterwards repeating this conversation, she found that he knew nothing of her character even from ...
... woman readers struggling with more repressive notions of humility, self—examination and self—blame as the particular ... Horatia's view of her suitors, and except when taunted with her illegitimacy is unaffected by Lady Castlenorth's ...
... Lady Horatia. By late August or early September she is at Exeter. Willoughby spends most of 1788 abroad looking for the truth of her parentage and in a state of indecision. He becomes engaged to Miss Fitz—Hayman in the spring of 1789 ...
... Lady Horatia's drawing—room for George Willoughby's reply to her plead— ing letter. Marianne meets her Willoughby by ... girl. Marianne, who tends to think in literary stereotypes, tries to con— vince herself that her lover's ...
... Lady Horatia and Mrs. Jen— nings are both guardian—figures speaking for sense, neither convinc— ingly. The false reports to Celestina and Willoughby that the other is married make for an exciting conclusion—Smith was pleased with her ...
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The Reception and Influence of Celestina | 543 |
The Political Context | 555 |
Charlotte Smiths Life | 569 |
Select Bibliography | 601 |